Joyful
New Year! A rain of happiness!So be
it! So be it!Auspiciousness
and well-being;Oh,
freedom, joy, and auspiciousness!So ya
la! The sun of freedom and joy,May it
arise just so in the snow land of Tibet!

Note:
One phrase in here that I sometimes have trouble rendering into english is འཛོམས་ཤོག "dzom shok" which literally means "may [it]
gather"; it just meant to convey the wish for something to occur in
abundance basically, but the trick is how would we say something comparable in
English? I felt the phrase "so be it" was a rather natural (though
not literal) way to translate this sentiment into English. Elsewhere, I
translated the nominalized form of the verb as "ensuing" because, again,
I felt that 'gathering' would have sounded less elegant. Also, what I have here
translated as "His Holiness the Dalai Lama" for the sake of
convenience, is not a literal translation of རྒྱལ་བ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ "gyel wa yi shin nor bu" which is a very honorofic and
meaning-packed name for His Holiness. 'Gyelwa' literally means "victorious
one" and is an epithet for a Buddha; 'Yishin Norbu' means
"wish-fulfilling jewel" and is supposed to signify the preciousness
and value of the spiritual master. Another separate phrase to notice is
"So ya la" which is basically meaningless but is meant to indicate a
sense of joy or celebration; thus I left it untranslated.Additionally,
for anyone visiting a Tibetan family on Losar, please memorize this phrase
which is mentioned here in the song: བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས།
ཨ་མ་བག་བྲོ་སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང། "Tashi delek phün sum tsok
ama phak dro ku kham sang"; it is the traditional Losar greeting which
means "May there be complete and perfect auspiciousness and well-being;
May mother be well and comfortable." Although, if you cannot bring
yourself to memorizing that, a good-old fashioned "Tashi Delek" will
certainly suffice!

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